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RE: Corrupted file x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at syncretize dot net>
- To: "'Alexander Gottwald'" <Alexander dot Gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:42:27 +1000
- Subject: RE: Corrupted file x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald
> Sent: Saturday, 13 July 2002 5:04 AM
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Corrupted file x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:
>
> > In the directory release/XFree86/x2x/, the file
> x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2 has
> > the correct md5sum (being
> 87075ba00b0cd15f35975c956f14591a); but running
> > bzip2 -tv gives a "file ends unexpectedly" error message,
> and attempting to
> > run bzip2 -dv fails.
>
> Have you downloaded it via ftp? The please check you fetched
> it in binary
> and not ascii mode.
If he'd downloaded in ascii ftp mode the md5 would not match.
Rob